Fancy That!
Facts to make you go“WOW!”
THERE ARE MORE THAN 100 DIFFERENT VIRUSES WHICH CAUSE A COLD.
◆ Peggy is short for Margaret (because it rhymes with the shortened Meg or Meggy).
◆ HUMANS ARE THE ONLY ANIMALS THAT SLEEP ON THEIR BACKS. Cryology is the study of snow and ice ◆ The “F” and “J” keys on a keyboard have little bumps so you can position your hands for touch typing without having to look. ◆ THE AVERAGE HUMAN BODY CONTAINS ENOUGH WATER TO FILL A 50-LITRE BARREL, AND ENOUGH FAT TO MAKE SEVEN BARS OF SOAP. ◆ The national football team of The Gambia is nicknamed The Scorpions.
◆ THE GRAND BANKS, A PATCH OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN OFF THE COAST OF NEWFOUNDLAND, IS THE FOGGIEST PLACE IN THE WORLD, WITH MORE THAN 200 FOGGY DAYS EACH YEAR. ◆ Michigan has more lighthouses than any other American state, with 115 around the Great Lakes.
◆ NERVE IMPULSES FROM THE BRAIN MOVE AT 274 KM/H.
◆ The Queen can speak fluent French.
◆ 68% OF INSTAGRAM USERS ARE FEMALE. ◆ Dundee is nicknamed the City of Discovery after Antarctic explorer Robert Scott’s ship the Discovery, which was built there.
An elephant’s skin can be up to an inch thick A fully stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long
◆ THE SIX-YEAR-OLD STAR OF RYAN’S TOYS-REVIEW EARNS THIRTY-TIMES THE SALARY OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT FOR PLAYING WITH TOYS ON HIS YOUTUBE CHANNEL. ◆ THE AVERAGE PERSON SAYS 4800 WORDS EACH DAY.
◆ The hole in the end of a Bic pen top is to allow air-flow and prevent choking if it’s accidentally swallowed.
◆ THE SCIENTIFIC NAME FOR A BANANA IS MUSA SAPIENTUM WHICH MEANS “FRUIT OF THE WISE MAN”.
◆ The early Romans had an eight-day week and the French once divided the year into tenday divisions called decades. YOU GO TO BED ABOUT 8MM SHORTER THAN WHEN YOU GET UP.
◆ So many women wrote to 19th century pianist Franz Liszt asking for a lock of his hair that he bought a dog and clipped the hair from that.